What a bad news. Today I got a mail from Google Adsense team announcing that the referal program will be retired during the last week of August. I think it includes all products even Google product that include Adwords, Firefox and Adsense.

Here is a quote from the original mail:

Thank you for participating in the AdSense Referrals programme. We
will be retiring the AdSense Referrals programme during the last
week of August. After that time, AdSense Referrals code will no
longer display ads.

If you currently use referrals, either to promote Google products
or offerings from AdWords advertisers, we encourage that you take
the following steps before the product is retired:

* Remove all referral code from your site(s): Please take a
moment to remove all referral code from your sites before the last
week of August, so that you can continue to effectively monetise
your ad space.

* Replace your referral ads with AdSense for content ads: If
you have less than three AdSense for content ad units on a page,
we recommend replacing referral ad units with standard AFC ad
units. This will minimise the risk of decreased AdSense earnings
when the Referrals programme is retired.

* Run and save all referrals reports to your desktop: All
Referrals reports will no longer be available at the end of
October.

So, we all should take a moment to remove all that referral buttons and banners from our websites.

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